Friday, December 29, 2017

The
burning chapel by the Navarrese interpreter will be installed in the funeral
parlor of the M-30 in Madrid

El Pais

12/29/2017

Navarrese actor
Pedro Osinaga died this afternoon at 81 years old in Madrid, the theater impresario Jesus
Cimarro, personal friend of the artist, told Efe. The
burning chapel with the mortal remains of the actor will be installed in the
funeral home of the M-30 in Madrid,
according to the same source.

Pedro Osinaga, who was born on
December 15, 1936 in Pamplona,
​​has been one of the most popular Spanish actors to have toured with his
company in numerous theater comedies, as noted by the jury of the XV Pepe
Isbert Theater Award that was granted in June 2011.

Proof
of this is that the actor starred in the comedy Sé infiel y no mires con quién,
by English playwright Ray Cooney, for 14 years (1971 and 1985), a period in
which he was seen by more than eight million viewers in more than 10,000 representations. Osinaga
also worked under the command of Gustavo Pérez Puig in Estudio 1 of TVE in the
mythical Twelve Men without Mercy (1973, in the then UHF channel), and was the
only one of those twelve performers who was still alive. He
appeared in films such as Don Juan (1974), Cuentos de las sábanas blancas (1977)
and Réquiem por un empleado (1978).

He
was always very close to his hometown, where he studied music and from where,
after obtaining a scholarship, he moved to Madrid to start his artistic career in the
world of zarzuela, mainly as a baritone. Between
its last works figure the strange pair, of Neil Simon, that he carried out next
to Joaquín Kremel.

Osinaga,
who tried not to miss the Sanfermines, received the Gold Medal for Merit of the
Fine Arts in 1999, and was awarded by the Association of Journalists of Navarre
in 2010, among other professional recognitions. The
actor confessed in 1988 that his professional career was possible because he
left the position in the regional soccer team of Pamplona
where he played to go to Madrid
to make a career as an interpreter.

Thomas O’Driscoll Hunter died peacefully in his home in
Rowayton, Connecticut, on Dec. 27, 2017.

Born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1932, he led a creative and
adventurous life. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in
art and proudly served as a captain in the United States Marine Corps. In the
late ’50s, he embarked on an exciting career as an actor, which led to a
10-year residence in Italy and a number of starring roles in “spaghetti
westerns” and other movies shot around the world. In Rome, he formed his own
theater company and co-wrote the screenplays for the films “The Human Factor”
and “The Final Countdown.” Upon returning to the United States, he wrote and
directed plays, ran theater workshops and published a novel, “Softly Walks the
Beast,” and an autobiography, “Memoirs of a Spaghetti Cowboy: Oddball Tales of
Luck and Derring-Do.”

Tom was an avid tennis player, cartoonist, storyteller
and, as a longtime member of the Screen Actors’ Guild, film lover.

He wrote original songs as well as lyrics to music
composed by his father-in-law, Eddy Courts. He even designed two energy-efficient
homes for his family in Massachusetts.

With his kindness, humor, imagination and love, he
transformed friends and family, including his wife Isabelle Hunter, daughters
Kaki Hunter and Georgia Farinholt, sister Susan Hunter, many nieces and
nephews, and grandsons Boody Springer and Wyatt and Ransom Farinholt.

Thomas G. Stanford peacefully departed a long and happy
life on December 23, 2017 at the age of 93. He is survived by his beloved
partner Sherry Bendickson, cherished daughter and husband Nina and Brendt
Mullan, their adored children Julian and Denis, and cherished son and wife Adam
and Lyn Stanford. Born in Germany and educated in Switzerland and England, he
moved to Santa Fe in 1987 after a long career as a film editor in Hollywood.
The highlight of his numerous achievements in the film industry was receiving
an Oscar in 1962 for editing West Side Story. But the crowning jewels in his
life were his loving relationship with Sherry, and his pride in his children
and love for them. He leaves behind many friends who will miss his wisdom and
humor, and his most engaging presence.

Leonard George, a beloved leader of the Tsleil-Waututh
Nation, has died at the age of 71.

Born in North Vancouver on Aug. 18, 1946, George was the
son of the late Chief Dan George and his wife Amy.

Like his father, George was an accomplished actor and
shone on screen in classics such as as Smoke Signals and Call of the Wild.

As an elder and chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, he
was known for his wisdom, wit and work to protect First Nation's land, water,
resources and culture.

He also made economic strides for his community,
initiating Takaya Developments, a real-estate development company majority
owned by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

Charlene Aleck, George's niece and an elected councillor
for the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, said the family is grieving.

"The magnitude of the loss is great for our family
as well as for everybody else," Aleck said.

"He changed the way people looked at First Nations
in doing business. He really upheld a lot of our culture and teachings. He
broke new ground and had a space for us to carry our traditions and bring it
into a new space."

In 2013, George was honoured with Queen Elizabeth II's
Diamond Jubilee Medal for his work as an economic development visionary and as
a spiritual leader.

George was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2005 and had
to re-learn how to speak, eat and even sing.

He is survived by his wife Susan and three sons Justin,
Gabriel, and Zac. Two other sons, Quatsame and Issac, predeceased him.

Outpouring of condolences

This morning, Federal Justice Minister Jody
Wilson-Raybould tweeted she was "very saddened to hear of the passing of
Leonard George. My thoughts and prayers go out to his friends, family and
Nation."

B.C. Regional Chief Terry Teegee expressed his heartfelt
sympathies and condolences to George's family, describing him in a statement as
a significant leader.

"I've known Chief Leonard George since I was young;
he was a close friend to me and my family, and was always an inspiration for
me. We are so grateful to have had such a strong community leader and advocate
within our circles for all these years," Teegee wrote.

Thursday, December 28, 2017

The beloved actress was a co-headliner on opening night at
Bugsy Siegel’s Flamingo Hotel in Vegas in 1946 and later a regular on ‘The
Hollywood Squares.’

Rose Marie, the actress who went toe-to-toe in a man’s world as wisecracking
comedy writer Sally Rogers on the legendary 1960s CBS sitcom The Dick Van
Dyke Show, has died. She was 94.
Marie died at 2 p.m. Thursday at her home in Van Nuys, California,
according to her website.

The comedienne-vocalist, who started her career at age 3 in some of the
earliest talking films, co-headlined on the opening night of Bugsy Siegel’s
Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas in 1946 and was a regular on the game show The
Hollywood Squares.

Readily identifiable by the bow in her hair and her raspy voice, Marie was a
member of one of the most popular ensemble casts in TV history. Along with
Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Morey Amsterdam and,
occasionally, Carl Reiner (the series' creator), she appeared in all
five seasons of the sitcom and received Emmy nominations in 1963, 1964 and
1966.

“We were always changing lines, even right up to the very minute of going on
the air,” she recalled in a 2004 interview. “If something didn’t work, it
didn’t work. Sometimes guest stars would panic because they weren’t used to
this. We were a tight-knit, hard-working crew. I couldn’t wait to get to the
set each day.”

The man-needy Rogers’ verbal jousts with Amsterdam — whom she had known
in real life since she was 11 — were among the show’s highlights. At the time,
the sight of a single woman in the workplace was novel on TV.

She was hired for the sitcom — the second person cast after Van Dyke
himself — for $1,000 an episode by executive producer Sheldon Leonard, who had
played her brother on the radio on The Phil Harris Show.

Marie had cultivated her persona as a husband-hunter in a number of comic
guest appearances on the shows of such luminaries as Jimmy Durante, Jackie
Gleason, Red Skelton, Garry Moore, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Dinah Shore,
Dean Martin, Merv Griffin and, frequently with Johnny Carson, on The
Tonight Show.

She also played secretary Myrna Gibbons, who worked with Doris Day’s
character in a magazine office, on the CBS sitcom The Doris Day Show;
was Hilda, the sandwich delivery lady, on the ABC action series S.W.A.T.;
appeared as Frank Fontana’s (Joe Regalbuto) mom on Murphy Brown;
portrayed a baseball owner, not unlike Marge Schott of the Cincinnati Reds, on
the Fox sitcom Hardball; and was the voice of Norma Bates in Gus Van
Sant’s remake of Psycho (1998).

Marie also was a 14-year participant on The Hollywood Squares,
where her comic cackle delighted audiences, and she appeared in such films as Dead
Heaton a Merry-Go-Round (1966), Don’t Worry, We’ll Think of
a Title (1966) and Lunch Wagon (1981).

“I play me in almost everything I do,” she once said. “I play a part to the
best of my ability to get a joke out, to sell it and to do it best.”

Rose Marie Mazetta was born in New
York on Aug. 15, 1923, her name inspired by the
popular Broadway musical Rose-Marie. She entered show business as
a 3-year-old toddler when she appeared at New York’s Mecca Theater and belted out a
torch ballad.

The precocious performer, known as "Baby Rose Marie the Child
Wonder," won a spot on a national radio show and became one of the hottest
stars on the NBC Radio Network.

During the 1930s, Marie also toured in vaudeville and had small parts in
movies, including International House (1933), which starred W.C.
Fields. She was so talented, many people thought she was a midget dressed in
kids' clothes.

When she was 11, she dropped the “Baby” from her name. The following year,
her family moved to New Jersey
and she was sent to a convent school, not resuming her career until age 17,
when she was billed as “Miss Rose Marie.”

Beginning in the '40s, she performed in nightclubs and theaters. Her deep,
throaty voice won her fans at the leading nightclubs of the day, including the
Copacabana, and she toured in the musical revue 4 Girls 4 with
Rosemary Clooney, Helen O’Connell and Margaret Whiting for eight years.

Marie was one of the headliners, along with comedian Jimmy Durante and
bandleader Xavier Cugat, to open Siegel’s Flamingo, the first such modern hotel
and casino, on Dec. 27, 1946.

During her onstage engagements, Marie perfected her comic timing and won
notice on Broadway for her acting and pizzazz. She co-starred with the top
comic stars like Milton Berle in Spring in Brazil, Zero Mostel in
Lunatics and Lovers and Phil Silvers in Top Banana. Her Top
Banana turn brought her back to the movies, when she and Silvers headlined
a film version for director Alfred E. Green in 1954. (Many of here scenes were
cut, however, she told THR recently.)

During the 1950s and ’60s, she garnered guest-star roles on TV in such shows
as The Adventures of Jim Bowie, Gunsmoke, The Many Loves
of Dobie Gillis, The Monkees and My Three Sons.

During a visit to CBS affiliate WJW in Cleveland
to promote the Van Dyke Show, Marie met Tim Conway, then a local actor
doing skits for the station. She became his manager and got the comic his first
big job, as a regular on ABC’s The Steve Allen Show.

Marie was married to Bobby Guy, at one time the lead trumpeter for the NBC
Orchestra, which performed nightly on The Tonight Show. He died in
1964 of a blood infection. The couple had one daughter, Georgiana, who survives
her.

Throughout her life, Marie was active in many causes, most notably animal
welfare. Her memoir, Hold the Roses, was published in 2002, and a
documentary about her, Wait for Your Laugh, premiered in November.

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

StarTrek.com is saddened to report the passing of Stewart
Moss, a veteran actor, writer and director who twice guest starred on Star
Trek: The Original Series. Moss, who played Joe Tormolen in “The Naked Time”
and Hanar in “By Any Other Name," died of a heart attack in September,
though word of his death has just now been made public. He was 79 and would
have turned 80 today, November 27.

Moss's life and career intersected with everyone from
Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Alfred Hitchcock and Frank Sinatra to Rock Hudson,
Robin Williams, Hugh Hefner and more than a few Playboy Playmates, that last
fact courtesy of his directing shows for the then-fledgling Playboy Channel, as
well as Marianne McAndrew, his wife of 50 years.

As an actor, Moss counted among his film and TV credits
Raise the Titanic, Topaz, In Harm's Way, The Bat People (with his wife), The
Missiles of October, Hogan's Heroes, Bonanza: The Return, Mannix, Quincy,
Ironside, Cagney and Lacey, Rockford Files, T.J. Hooker, The Six Million Dollar
Man, Perry Mason, Punky Brewster and The Fall Guy. He also acted in a total of
64 stage productions on Broadway, off-Broadway, regionally and in dinner
theater.

On Star Trek, Moss portrayed two very different
characters. As Tormolen in "The Naked Time," he was the Starfleet
officer who pulled a knife -- a butter knife -- on Sulu and Riley, and died
after falling on it.

Later, in "By Any Other Name," his character Hanar
was part of an alien species, the Kelvan, that assumed human form to commandeer
the Enterprise. StarTrek.com spoke to Moss in 2015, when he released his
autobiography, My Trek. He clearly preferred the second of his two Trek
experiences.

"We started out as very pale, almost whitish in
complexion and stiff, somewhat robotic," Moss recalled of the Kelvan in
our interview. "As the story went on, we became more human-looking and
behaving, which eventually did us in. As an actor, the progression in playing
Hanar was interesting to deal with. As I remember it, I worked through the
entire shooting of “By Any Other Name” and only three days on “The Naked Time,”
but the latter was my best experience. It was a juicier part. I had scenes with
Bill, Leonard and DeForest Kelley, who was my favorite Star Trek cast
member."

As that 2015 interview concluded, Moss marveled at the
fact that Star Trek remained a part of his life nearly 50 years on. "The
whole Star Trek phenomenon is mind-blowing," he said. "Who would’ve thunk
that almost 50 years later it’s still going strong? I haven’t done any
conventions in six years, but I get a request now and then in the mail from
fans from all over the world asking for an autograph, to which I happily
comply. All in all, being a part of the Star Trek world is something of which
many actor friends of mine, who have more impressive resumes, are
envious."

About Me

Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1946 I have a BA degree in American History from Cal St. Northridge. I've been researching the American West and western films since the early 1980s and visiting filming sites in Spain and the U.S.A. Elected a member of the Spaghetti Western Hall of Fame 2010.